The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has tasked the Flying Eagles to win the 2015 AYC in Senegal.

No fewer than 23,482 employers have keyed into the Employees Compensation Scheme, ECS, regarded as a major step towards implementation of social insurance aimed at, among others, rehabilitation of workers who sustain injuries at work and payment of compensation for permanent disability or death.

Policemen attached to Ojokoro Division in Lagos have arrested a 60-year-old woman and her two children for allegedly refusing to release the corpse of her late husband to his family members for proper burial, three years after his demise.

Director-General of Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, Mr Victor Giadom, has described the threat by the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, Mr Nyesom Wike, to make public the financial dealings of All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Dr Dakuku Peterside, as an empty threat.

OBY Nwakor, a fish farmer in Labora/Owode area of Ibeju-Lekki in Lagos, is among thousands of residents who were recently rendered homeless due to no fault of theirs. Nwakor moved to Labora community in 2008. With the little income he made from his farming business, he built a little house to provide accommodation for him and his family.

The grassroots-meet-the-women campaign tour of the wife of Akwa Ibom State, Mrs. Ekaette Akpabio, yesterday, recorded a huge success in Oruk Anam, Ukanafun, Etim Ekpo and Ika as the women of the areas assured the governor’s wife that their permanent voter’s cards, PVC, were all intact to vote PDP.

LAGOS—Following the successes of the last two summits in London, the Asset Summit Africa 2015 will be held for the first time in Africa at the Eko Hotels & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos on March 31 and April 1.

Bente Vindvik is a Norwegian born painter. She had participated in many solo and group exhibitions in her country Norway and in Angola where she stayed for sometime before coming to Nigeria. And after spending over four years in Nigeria, Norwegian born painter is set to share her art with art lovers in and around Lagos, before she finally leaves in May with a solo art exhibition tagged A Nordic View of Nigeria, an exhibition of Drawings and painting.

FORMER president of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Dr.Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) has said that the National Conference failed because it was hijacked by people with ethnic political philosophy that upholds liberty as its principal objective.

Fidelity Bank has disbursed N80 million to three firms under the N220 billion Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) fund.

Former Nigeria international and a contemporary of out-of-contract Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, coach Henry Nwosu has observed that his former team mate should be civil enough to read the mood of Nigerians and quit.

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, declared yesterday, that many Nigerians may soon become stateless due to the activities of Boko Haram.

ON August 30, 1962, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Eric in a message to the youths of the nation at independence said: “To youth tender and loving hands the future of the nation is entrusted. In your innocent hearts, the pride of the nation is enshrined. On your scholastic development, the salvation of the nation is development.

The role of security men in the forthcoming election has become an issue. Ordinarily in advanced democracies, security men are rarely seen within the precincts of the voting area and certainly do not enforce a lockdown of the town as would be expected across the country.

Worried by incessant communal clashes leading to killings and wanton destruction of property nationwide,the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, has set up a Communal Clash Committee to mitigate incidences of inter- and intra-communal crisis.